[Harp-L] delays

[Jonathan Ross <jross38@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The EH Memory Man is a fine if rather standard analog delay--get the  
one with the chorus (the "deluxe", IIRC) as I found the added chorus  
to be fairly nice, if not Roland Juno level of nice (the best  
choruses I've ever used).  It's not ground-breaking, but if you run a  
pre-amp before it or through you're amps effects loop you'll be fine  
(as with most guitar effects pedals).

Steve Warner writes vis-a-vis the Lone Wolf delay pedal:

"What Randy has done to this thing is keep the pedal in the "Harp Delay"
parameters and not like all the other pedals have, which have  WAYYYYY
TOOOOOOO much delay  that's made for guitar players. Of course we can  
keep
it turned down, but we don't need 16 seconds of delay."

You may not, but I do.  I always want more control, not less with an  
effects pedal.  The first thing I thought when listening to those  
samples was, it sounds really, really tame.  When the delay is set to  
10 and you don't get all-but uncontrollable delays feeding back I am  
seriously disappointed.  The more options, the more possibility to  
get exactly what you want, when you want sound-wise.

Since I haven't actually played the Lone Wolf, I really can only  
comment on the sound samples, but they sounded very much like what  
I'd expect out of a digital delay with analog filtering.  A nice  
sound, but very tame.

Personally, I always liked the grungy, low resolution early digital  
delays the best when it comes to digital delays, but that's just me.   
The modern ones tend to sound too much like what they so often in  
fact are: mimics of something (analog delay or tape echo, depending  
on the unit) rather than an actual musical instrument in and of  
themselves.




 ()()    JR "Bulldogge" Ross
()  ()   & Snuffy, too:)
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